The case pits the State of Minnesota against a class of convicted sex offenders who argue that the state exceeded its authority and violated their civil rights by keeping them locked away indefinitely in prisonlike treatment centers and by failing to provide adequate treatment and a clear path toward release.

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Arguing for the state, Nathan Brennaman said the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP) is constitutional and protects offenders’ rights, in part because it provides them with the right to petition for release through special review boards. He also argued that the facilities at Moose Lake and St Peter provide individualized treatment and are staffed with “caring professionals who are doing the best they can with this difficult population.”

“I do feel a lot of remorse for those crimes that I’ve committed,” said Bolte, one of the 14 named plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit against the state. “Not everybody here’s the monster that they think is here … I’m not the kid I was when I got locked up 13 years ago.”

But constitutional issues aside, the prospect of the release of large numbers of sex offenders is concerning to some Minnesotans. KSTP interviewed Lori Jenson of Le Center, a community that is host to one of only three people ever released from the program, Robert Jeno.

The 6 innocents recently exonerated who were on Texas Death Row should make Minnesotans look carefully at the designation “sexual predator” as a kind of death sentence.

Some of these people were charged with sex crimes for being 18 when they had sex with a minor 16 year-old (a fictitious but illustrative example). They can’t all be the same. The risk of release can’t be the same for every prisoner.

Rapists with a “likely to re-offend” diagnosis need to be treated differently.

Still, releasing people with a certainty that they will NOT re-offend isn’t possible.

Releasing any prisoner, convicted of any violent crime carries the risk they will re-offend.

A State that discards individual rights for certainty, in a country still running an offshore prison camp, needs to wonder if they still ARE a constitutional republic- no?

When the Brits refused to extradite a sex-criminal to Minnesota, saying there was no assurance they would receive Due Process, aren’t we supposed to be embarrassed?

At 5 years from release for a Rape or Sexual Assault, the cumulative percent of offenders rearrested is 60.3%. This is compared to 76.6% for all types of crimes, 71% for Violent Crimes (of which sex crimes are a subset), 82% for Property crimes, 76% for Drug crimes, and 73.6% for Public Order crimes.

In fact, at 5 years from release, the recidivism rate for Rape/Sexual Assault offenders is the lowest rate besides those for Homicides and DUIs.

So, unless you’d like to source your claim, I think you have to concede the point and change your opinion.